[A strike]

Oh really?
So the Rand research position on “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia” is unstated and unsubstantiated to you ?
Perhaps you should give a really big tug and pull your head out.

(now go hide under teacher’s skirt)

[AndyJackson]

the Rand research position on “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia” is unstated and unsubstantiated

Well, if you don't know who RAND is and what they do and this is exactly what they do, and who in the gubmint it goes to and who pays for it and why, you are a fool. When RAND writes a report like that and then the US executes that plan there is no conspiracy theory about it. A policy option was present and it was taken.

[Berlin_Freeper]

Now you come at me with Rand. But you still show nothing. Maybe you should email Ukraine and tell how you and Rand think they should stop defending their country.

You posted this:

Perverse denial in the face of incontrovertible evidence.

so let me help you with an actual link:

Neither Ukraine nor Russia to achieve absolute victory in this war RAND

Which supports what I posted about Putin being weak.

(Strike two for you)